ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

i like Dog Day Afternoon fine but really?

Didn't vote for it--I think it really tails off the last half-hour or so--but I like that it's this high. Right there with Almost Famous for the best use of Elton John in a movie.

Dog Day Afternoon deserves this placing, for the reasons given above, will be very happy if it has beaten Taxi Driver.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON is a cool entry, personally I would have some other films I’d wish would be on this list to represent that vibe (eg, if THE KING OF COMEDY doesn’t place I’ll be sad), but there’s not really anything to dislike about the movie and pacino is great

We’ve had king of comedy!

Pacino's best work. Maybe the only time a Lumet film, you know, moves, or, rather, has a sense of rhythm.

oh we did lol

I'd swap Dog Day Afternoon's and King of Comedy's rankings tbh.

Even more than "Attica! Attica!", I think Cazale's hair and hangdog demeanor are the film's most brilliant creations.

Didn’t vote for it, although I did reference it on maybe my second post on this thread.

I finally saw PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK recently and man, pacino was such a good actor in the 70s

Love Dog Day Afternoon. One thing about its '70s NYC vibe that sets it apart from Scorsese is its sense of the ridiculous. The movie feels as energized by the city as threatened by it.

otm

Not sure if anyone else saw The Dog, but it was pretty good. As I remember it, John Wojtowicz revels in the celebrity the film brought to him.

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27. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium) [906 points; 9 votes]
S&S: 51 | TSPDT: 85 | BOXD: 130

MORBS SEZ: "None of Akerman's other films have approached Jeanne Dielman for me, though i like several (La Captive, Golden Eighties, Into the East) … and i will slap down anyone who points to DL's "18-hour movie" quote, bcz what is the Mary Tyler Moore Show besides a 90-hour expansion of Jeanne Dielman?"

Jeanne Dielman in the top 40 is a very pleasant surprise.
― jed_, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 3:21 PM

Is there a better film than Jeanne Dielman?
― i know kore-eda (or something), Thursday, January 18, 2018 7:40 PM

It took me three days to get through Jeanne Dielman.
― jmm, Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:40 PM

I don't think Jeanne Dielmann towers above her other films, although it is hard to imagine a film that could so successful bring together so many of the themes of 2nd wave feminism in such a sharpened way.
― plax (ico), Saturday, January 20, 2018 7:00 AM

I'm gonna go watch Jeanne dielman to purge myself of my populist leanings
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, November 16, 2009 8:26 AM

was GONNA ask a guy out to see 'jeanne dielman' but we broke it off before that could happen (this particular guy would've been game, i imagine)
― naches supreme (donna rouge), Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:54 AM

Not only did I not get a date to see Jeanne Dielman, I didn't get to see Jeanne Dielman!
― Casuistry, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:40 PM

Sure its her best film but the overall body of work is just immense (Tout Une Nuit is as good btw, but sure it doesn't capture a time like Jeanne Dielman does). La Captive is the only Proust adaptation worth watching. Golden Eighties is a beautiful send-up-as-love-letter to the musical (iirc given a kind of feminist makeover that works), her films on Pina Bausch and Plath are some of the few films that capture modern dance (and makes Wenders' film on the same subject to be vastly inferior) and the struggles of making anything -- never mind anything good -- come alive. I loved how a more avant-garde framing/video content is pulled into films as varied as the opening of the iron curtain (D'Est) to an exploration of her relationshp with her mother (No Home Movie, the best film of that year). Many more aspects to expore in her work.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, January 19, 2018 8:23 AM

DUDE FUCKIN JEANNE DIELMAN
― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Friday, May 5, 2006 11:47 PM

He'd better watch his back.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, May 5, 2006 11:51 PM

Watching it for the third time during pandemic was better than therapy.

this film deserves a better list

although at least we have it higher than sight and sound

"A lonely Belgian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties while staying home."

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i still haven't see this but afaic chantal akerman is the best filmmaker of all time. (none of her films made my list bc i feel like i have yet to see my favorite)

NARRATOR: He will.

This top 50 so far is providing quite the homework assignment!

golden eighties is the one i expect will sing to me

i did nearly vote for hotel monterey, the only film i can write to

golden eighties is the one i expect will sing to me

Quite LITERALLY

I saw it last fall and didn't leave the house for a week.

My favourite is the Pina Bausch documentary

I voted for News From Home.

Dog Day Afternoon is one of the greatest films shot within ten minutes’ walk from my apartment

Dielman is too low

Related I visited the flat in Brussels last week!

xp revisited 'golden eighties' with my partner last fall as well. meli melo-oh-oh!

i might've voted for 'news from home' here over JD but the experience of seeing the latter in the theater was truly indelible. saw a friend in the lobby afterwards and i think we were too stunned to even speak to each other

Related I visited the flat in Brussels last week!

― plax (ico), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:34 PM (thirty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Are there JD tours in Brussels, in the way you can take a The Third Man-themed tour in Vienna?

last time i saw in the cinema one guy in front started laughing to himself during the climax which was uhh unsettling

shout-out to back-to-back Brackett

Are there JD tours in Brussels, in the way you can take a The Third Man-themed tour in Vienna?

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:36 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Idk I just googled the address and it was nearby, looked like a different building but there was a plaque

still wonder what the rotating flashing lights were that you could see coming in from outside the windows in the night-time scenes

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26. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, USA) [920.79 points; 14 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
S&S: 60 | TSPDT: 58 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "NxNW is the most POPULIST Hitchcock, u pathetic phonies … ending is perfect. It's a sex comedy in disguise … as David Edelstein wrote today, NxNW 'is too much fun.'" (Slant review.)

The only action movie with Martin Landau playing a homo.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:17 AM

Is NxNW supposed to be "romantic"?! or "funny"?!
― Eric H., Friday, February 8, 2008 11:30 AM

NxNW is tooootally a romcom yeah
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:32 PM

This film is Hitchcock's statement on cunnilingus
― come on sock it to me (kephm), Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:14 AM

NxNW is just fucking great and the old cliche about it inventing Bond movies is mostly true
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:16 AM

NXNW would be a classic if cary grant hadn't played the lead.
― turner, Sunday, September 9, 2001 7:00 PM

oddly the first thing that comes to mind when I think about NxNW is that little kid in the background that plugs his ears right before Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant.
― da croupier, Friday, February 8, 2008 11:43 AM

The very first band I was ever in was called North by Northwest. Probably my favorite Hitchcock, or at least a very close tie with Rear Window.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:19 AM

The very first porn I was ever in was called Rear Window.
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:20 AM

north by northwest more like butts by buttswest
― Esteban Buttez!!, Thursday, July 7, 2005 4:09 PM

so we've got what? another 4 or 5 Hitch movies in the top 25?

(That's his 3rd so far; still one behind Altman.)

i forgot, has Psycho alread placed?

Vertigo of course but what else? Think maybe just one or two more, hopefully not Rear Window.

I was the first-place voter here. What can I say? A perfect entertainment.

i was including Psycho but Vertigo and Rear Window strongly possible, The Birds a solid maybe, all the Brit Hitch robbed obviously

Cary Grant is barely a human being in this movie, just a flannel suit with flesh in it. He's wonderful.

Leathery, bronzed, oily flesh.

"How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you."

s/o to Vincent Gallo doing the airplane scene in Arizona Dream.

Apparently the only performance that'll satisfy you is if I play dead.

NNW is so much fun.